Synthesizing Virtual Chinese Palace Scenes on OpenStreetMap

As multicultural environments are gaining popularity among people from all over the world who have different cultural backgrounds, historical and regional digital virtual environments authoring become a hot topic in the game, movie, and other multimedia industries. As one genre of multicultural multimedia, virtual Chinese palace scenes serve as a popular theme in Chinese 3D video games or 3D animations. However, manually designing the virtual Chinese palace scenes demands lots of effort from the game designers. In this paper, we propose a novel technical approach to automatically synthesize the virtual Chinese palace scenes on OpenStreetMap without demanding manual efforts. Our procedural modeling approach is able to convert any given modern urban architecture in the real world into a virtual Chinese palace architecture with a similar shape that results in a similar urban layout. In the experiment results, we demonstrate the efficacy of our approach in synthesizing virtual Chinese palace scenes in different real-world locations.